Update: Sign the letter to director Iancu here I think it is safe to say that this sums up the feelings of anyone who who…
I just got another email about yet another ranking of the “top” patent prosecution firms. The criteria used are apparently allowance rate, average number of…
This week I once again draw inspiration from PatentlyO. In this post Dennis looked at the number of inventors per application. He subsequently tweeted a…
In my last post I looked at how one patent examiner statistic — what I termed RCE allowance rate differential — can help inform whether…
For those of you that haven’t checked out BigPatentData examiner analytics in a while, a little while back I added strategy-specific allowance rates. These are…
We are currently experiencing an explosion in new companies and tools that enable peeking inside the “black box” of IP to drive improvements in efficiency,…
A while back, PatentlyO posted the numbers on means-plus-function claiming, and with recent talk of proposed changes to means plus function law, I decided to…
This post is a continued look at the number of patent applications being filed by technology area. See previous posts here and here and here.…
Teaser for next week’s post: Which of the following was NOT among the 5 fastest growing technology areas in terms of patent applications filed between…
Last week’s post, Fewer Applications are Being Drafted and Filed First in the U.S, spurred a lot of feedback worthy of a followup post. Until…